22. To hold criminals responsible for their crimes involves a failure to recognize that criminal actions, like all actions, are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent's character. It is not criminals but people in the law-abiding majority who by their actions do most to create and maintain this environment. Therefore, it is law-abiding people whose actions, and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that
a) it exploits an ambiguity in the term "environment" by treating two different meanings of the word as though they were equivalent
b) it fails to distinguish between actions that are socially acceptable and actions that are socially unacceptable
c) the way it distinguishes criminals from crimes implicitly denies that someone becomes a criminal solely in virtue of having committed a crime
d) its conclusion is a generalization of statistical evidence drawn from only a small minority of the population
e) its conclusion contradicts an implicit principle on which an earlier part of the argument is based.
a) it exploits an ambiguity in the term "environment" by treating two different meanings of the word as though they were equivalent
由于原文中有this environment一词，并在概念上发生意思的转变。
b) it fails to distinguish between actions that are socially acceptable and actions that are socially unacceptable
社会公德不等于法律
c) the way it distinguishes criminals from crimes implicitly denies that someone becomes a criminal solely in virtue of having committed a crime
如同中国人所说的“坦白从宽，牢底做穿”
d) its conclusion is a generalization of statistical evidence drawn from only a small minority of the population
原文没有什么调查资料
e) its conclusion contradicts an implicit principle on which an earlier part of the argument is based.作者: oncemore 时间: 2002-6-24 15:23
